THE SKY’S THE LIMITLesley GarrattKathy Boake-WuthrichThe initial inspiration for this project was birds; birdsexperience few borders or boundaries. We brainstormed,wove in and out of ideas, discovered we couldconceptualize forever, and then time dictated that webegin.Certain boundaries or limitations presented themselves:the size of our piece, the difficulty of the physical work,how to make it a truly collaborative piece, being fair andopen but also figuring out when an idea, good as it mightbe, needed to be discarded. We realized that we wereexperiencing the borders and boundaries of applying twoseparate and creative minds to a singular project.As to be expected, we encountered misinterpretations andmisconceptions but we balanced more heavily into happyexcitement and astonishment at how well we generatedthoughts and how our thoughts were so in tune, hopscotchingand knitting all the pieces together.The theme of the project is reflected here by ourcollaborative experience with the personal borders andboundaries we had come to respect, and also overcome.We had to bridge the borders of unfamiliarity and crossthe boundaries of singular thinking.We are new to our friendship, and the partnership in thisproject taught us much more about each other than wewould have otherwise had the opportunity to know. Bysharing, being receptive and respectful, we opened a pointof access for our ideas to develop and merge.​